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The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library’s special collections.
An electronic edition of this issue is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Fred Schurink is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, English and American Studies at the University of Manchester
Rachel Winchcombe is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester
Huw Twiston Davies is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester
Editorial – Fred Schurink and Huw Twiston Davies
A New Edition of Eleven Fragmentary Neo-Sumerian Texts in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester – Changyu Liu and Qier Zhang
University of Manchester Library 23025: A Single-Leaf Print of the Crucifixion from a Late Medieval Etched Metal Plate, or a Nineteenth-Century Forgery? – Edward Potten
Adaption and Experimentation: The Evolution of Charles Calvert’s Acting Edition of The Tempest – Ian Martin Nickson
Religious Revival and the Challenge of Evangelical Primitivism: Opposition to the Brethren and Lay Preachers in Ulster after the 1859 Revival – Andrew R. Holmes
Rex Dei Gratia: Mark Hovell’s Forgotten Essay on The Divine Right of Kings – Chris Godden